Educational and Occupational Decisions

well, i’m officially losing my mind. i’ve spent so much money already on my college education, and i will be graduating in may. HOWEVER, i also have now decided that i would much rather be in the nursing/medical field than the counseling field, because there is more money there. my dream job would be a high school crisis counselor, but getting there requires more school and more licensing and not much pay. i think i’d rather go become a nurse now, because i can just have a two year degree and make so much more. but, i suck at making decisions and i feel like i’ve wasted so much money if i change my mind now. please help me figure out of school issues before i quit and start gold digging..

Undecided,

Do you have a counselor at your school that you can talk to about what you want to be when you’re done with school? As far as I know, most schools have one that can help you decide what would be best for you to do. If you have the option of talking to one, I think you should. They would know a lot more about these types of things than I would.

If you don’t have that option, then I would recommend that you look up information about the nursing/medical field and see what you’d be getting yourself into. If it sounds like something that you would be happy to do daily, something that you could see yourself doing for a long time, then I don’t see why you shouldn’t. The money that you could make may be an incentive, but it’s hard to stick with a job if it’s not something that you will be happy with.

While looking into that, if you find that it’s not something you really would want to stick with then I don’t see why you shouldn’t continue on to become what you’d like to be. The money may not be as good, but at least you know you’d like your job!

Good luck coming up with the right decision for you. It may seem hard sometimes, but you’re still young. It’s not over if you end up going down one path and finding it’s not what you thought it’d be.